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Dictionary definition · politic

adjective

  1. marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness"it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"
  2. smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication"he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"

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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).